PlantLink News May

May is a busy month and we have a lot of activities going on! This year we will celebrate Fascination of Plants Day and you are all welcome on the 25th of May. This newsletter also has updates on summer activities and new positions.

Minisymposium “The microbial control of biogeochemistry
across the aquatic-terrestrial divide”

Scape 2019 webpage is online!

Fascination of Plants Day on
25 May, Botanical Garden, Lund

Welcome to the fifth Fascination of Plants Day! On the theme “Food and plants in future landscapes” PlantLink and NordGen invite you to Lund Botanical Gardens on the on May 25 as part of their “spring madness”. Take part of our garden walks with Jan Svensson, Mikael Hedrén and Jonathan Leo and hear more from researchers about the past and future crops and plants. How can we for example with the help of plants tackle climate change that already today affects agriculture? In our market stall you will find seeds and books, and we are always ready to answer your plant questions! Here is a Flyer in Swedish.

2. CropBooster-P has started

H2020-funded CropBooster-P has the ambitious goal to develop a roadmap for future research leading to improved crop yields, increased sustainability and reduced environmental impact, and guaranteed nutritional quality of food in the future climate of Europe. The work is led by University of Wageningen with prominent participants such as INRA and University of Copenhagen. PlantLink is member of the stakeholder group and was recently invited to a scenario workshop within the network. More can be read here. If you are interested and want more information on our participation in CropBooster-P please contact Erik Alexandersson

3. NordPlant annual report for 2018

NordPlant, the new Nordic university hub for plant phenomics and modelling for future climates, was initiated in the beginning of 2019 and has now submitted its first annual report. Read more about its achievements here, and remember to sign up to its newsletter.

4. PlantLink day 3 October – hold the date!

The Plant Link Day will be on Thursday 3 October 12.00-16.30, Crafoord Hall, SLU Alnarp

The theme for the PlantLink day will be “Robust plants for future climates – research, application and policy”. Among the invited keynote speakers is Eric Justes from INRA. More information to come soon.

5. NPPN Field day Alnarp

We are happy to invite you to
the Nordic Plant Phenotyping Network Field Day 2019 which will be held in
Alnarp, Sweden on 25 June.

Professor Alexander Wezel, ISARA Lyon and senior scientist Stephane Bellon, INRA Avignon will visit SLU Alnarp on the 13 May in Alnarp. They will both give seminars in Terra Nova, Agricum from 13.15-14.15. For more information please contact Erik Steen Jensen.

8. PhD-position on bioenergy

PhD-position at Department of Biology, Lund University about the potential to use marginal agricultural land for bioenergy production and the biodiversity and ecosystem service consequences of doing so. https://lu.varbi.com/se/what:job/jobID:264941/

Researchers from any country of origin are eligible and there is no age
limit. You can find more information on the MSCA fellowship here but
I am also happy to answer any questions you might have. Any interested
candidates can directly contact me and I will put them in contact with the
principal investigator. Please get in contact as
soon as possible (deadline
May 15th) to have enough time to develop an exciting research
project together with the host. An application to the MSCA scheme would entail
that the candidate writes a research proposal together with the Luxembourg host
institute. As a national contact point for Horizon 2020, we will support the
proposal writing free of charge through trainings and writing support if
needed. The deadline for the submission of the final proposal is in September 2019, the project
would start around mid-2020. The fellowship includes a salary, travel and
training costs as well as a family allowance if applicable.

Stefan Vidal from University of Göttingen
will hold a seminar on “An innovative
attract & kill strategy targeting wireworms in potato: nice idea, but
pitfalls along the way ensuring effectiveness”

Friday 10 May at 14.15, Blue Hall, Ecology Building, Lund.

11. Minisymposium on “The microbial control of biogeochemistry across the aquatic-terrestrial divide” on 23 May

We will host a minisymposium titled “The microbial
control of biogeochemistry across the aquatic-terrestrial divide”.

It will start with a combined department seminar and
keynote to the symposium, delivered by David Kirchman. If you would like to
participate, and also enjoy a light lunch, coffee with accessories, and
scientific exchange throughout the afternoon, you are encouraged to find more
information and sign up here . Naturally all are
welcome, irrespective of signing up, to the department seminar.

Johannes Rousk & Emma Kritzberg

12. Scape 2019 webpage is online!

The 33rd annual meeting of the
Scandinavian Association of Pollination Ecology will take place on 24-27
October in Höör. More information will be available on the webpage further on.

PlantLink a network for plant science in Southern Sweden formed in 2011 by Lund University and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Alnarp. Our ambition is to stimulate, unite and promote plant research and higher education in the region.

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